LANSDALE — There will be no vote Wednesday night on contracts for architects recommending renovations and rebuilding work of Lansdale’s borough hall, police station, or former arts center at 311 West Main Street.

Borough Manager Timi Kirchner announced Wednesday that the contracts staff has proposed with Spiezle Architectural Group to evaluate and present formal proposals for both buildings, will not be done in time for a vote by council at its 7 p.m. meeting.

“The delay is due to the fact that we have final details to work out in each of these contracts, and...we want council to have ample time to consider a fully recommended contract before they vote,” Kirchner said.

According to Kirchner, borough solicitor Mark Hosterman of Wisler Pearlstine LLP recommended that votes on all of those contracts be pulled from Wednesday night’s agenda in order to allow for details to be finalized.

“This will ensure that everyone on borough council will have adequate time to review and thoughtfully discuss the contracts at a public meeting” before a final vote by council, Hosterman said in an email provided to The Reporter.

On the 311 contract, Hosterman said Wednesday he is “awaiting confirmation from the consultant on the availability of the insurance required to be purchased” by the terms of that agreement, and suggested that contract also be put on hold.

“It is our hope to tie up these loose ends as expeditiously as possible, so as not to unduly delay these important projects,” Hosterman said.

In January architects from Spiezle presented four potential design concepts centered on expanding the two current buildings, demolishing the police station and building a new one attached to a renovated borough hall, demolishing both and building an all-new facility, or building a new station attached to a renovated borough hall within the shell of the current building.

On Feb. 6 council heard a recommendation from Kirchner that council hire Spiezle to refine those design concepts into formal designs for two of those four options with the idea to vote on that contract tonight, a vote that now will be delayed.

Petitions have circulated since then calling on council to consider looking into other options including preservation of the current building. Public comment will be taken during tonight’s council meeting, but a copy of the council meeting materials accessed Wednesday afternoon states that both contracts are “currently being negotiated and is under legal review.”